INFO 6800 - Archives

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http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-29/

Respect des fonds

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Fonds Fonds

Fonds Fonds

Collection Fonds

Fonds Fonds

Council of Nova Scotia Archives, 2005

Respect des fonds

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Helen Creighton with the Gallagher family, Chebucto Head, ca. 1950

Ethnographic Archives

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Arrangement

PreservationDescription

Archives decision-making diagram Library of Congress

Resource Allocation

Arrangement

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Arranging a fonds at the Dalhousie University Archives

Arrangement

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Physically organizing business correspondence at Dalhousie University Archives

Archival Description

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Product

Process

Purpose

Archival Description

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Principles of RAD

Attention to use

Integrated description

Respect des fonds

All forms and mediums

Reflects arrangement

Describe creator

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Level of Arrangement

Level of Description

Container

Fonds Fonds Boxes

Series Series Boxes

Sub-Series Sub-Series Boxes

File File Box-Folder(s)

Item Item Folder

Archival Description

How are fonds organized?

January 7, 2013 10INFO 6800 Archives – Week One

Correspondence – Box 1, Folder 3

Photographs – Photo Box 3, Folder 9

Blueprints – Oversized File 27

Film reel – Canister 429

How are fonds organized?

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Box 1, Folder 3

Photo Box 3, Folder 9

Oversized File 27

Canister 429

Shelf 8, Room B

Shelf 2, Room A

Rack 9, Room B

Shelf 4, Room C

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Title. – Date(s) of creation. – Physical description. – Scope and content. – Notes. – Standard number.

1.0B

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Scenes of Oak Island, N.S. [graphic material]. – 1972. – 13 photographs : b&w, mounted on cardstock ; 20 x 17 cm.

Archivists’ Toolkit

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Archivists’ Toolkit

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Archivists’ Toolkit

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Archivists’ Toolkit

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ICA Atom

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Archives and the Internet

ICA Atom

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Archives and the Internet

ICA Atom

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Archives and the Internet

ICA Atom

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Archives and the Internet

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Archives and the Internet

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Archives and the Internet

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Archives and the Internet

ArchivesSpace

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Archives and the Internet

ArchivesSpace

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Archives and the Internet

ArchivesSpace

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Archives and the Internet

ArchivesSpace

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Archives and the Internet

ArchivesSpace

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Archives and the Internet

ArchivesSpace

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Archives and the Internet

Debates about Provenance

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Debates about Provenance

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“Postmodernism eschews any and all sweeping explanations premised on some version of monolithic human experience. In contrast, postmodernists emphasis the diversity of human experience and the multiplicity of perspectives arising there from.”

Deodato (2006)

Redefining Provenance

Debates about Provenance

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“Failing to perceive ethnicity as provenance can lead to some unfortunate results…Without a full appreciation for the contextual whole of ethnic community development, efforts to document this dimension of society can take on a fragmentary and narrow approach. When ethnicity is not viewed as provenance, it tends to be viewed simply as a subject area or "theme," like education, labor, sports, or the arts.”

Wurl (2005)

Redefining Provenance

Debates about Provenance

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“If any principle should govern archival theory, it is not the fonds, but rather the visualization through description of functional structures, both internal and external: archival narratives about those multiple relationships.”

Horsman(2002)

Redefining Provenance

Visualizing Archives

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Archives and the Internet

Visualizing Archives

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Redefining Provenance

Archives and the Internet

Visualizing Archives

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Redefining Provenance

Archives and the Internet

Visualizing Archives

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Redefining Provenance

Archives and the Internet

Visualizing Archives

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Archives and the Internet

Redefining Provenance

More Product, Less Process

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Resource Allocation

http://derangementanddescription.wordpress.com/tag/more-product-less-process/

• New York World’s Fair 1939 and 1940 Incorporated Records

• Amos Vogel Papers

• Oland and Son and Affiliated Companies

• Salman Rushdie Papers

January 30, 2012 Week Four – Archival Processing

Sample finding aids

Sources (in order of appearance)

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Adams, Scott (2010). Dilbert comic. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-03-29/. Council of Nova Scotia Archives. Fonds diagram.

http://www.councilofnsarchives.ca/ArchWay. Helen Creighton with the Gallagher family, Chebucto Head (ca. 1950).

http://www.helencreighton.org/photos/HCphotos/files/page6-1005-full.html.

The First Panchen Lama, Lobzang Chökyi Gyaltsen (detail); Tsang Province, Tibet; 18th century; Rubin Museum of Art; F1996.21.2 (HAR 477). http://www.rmanyc.org/nav/exhibitions/view/1562.

Library of Congress (2010). Archival decision making process diagram. http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/prep.html.

Deodato, Joseph. “Becoming Responsible Mediators: The Application of Postmodern Perspectives to Archival Arrangement and Description.” Progressive Librarian 27 (Summer 2006): 52-63. http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/PL_Jnl/pdf/PL27_summer2006.pdf.

Sources (in order of appearance)

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Horsman, Peter. “The Last Dance of the Phoenix, or the De-discovery of the Archival Fonds.” Archivaria 54 (Fall 2002): 1-23.

International Council on Archives (2000). Model of the levels of arrangement of a fonds. In International Standard for Archival Description (General), p. 36. http://www.ica.org/10207/standards/isadg-general-international-standard-archival-description-second-edition.html.

John Tagliabue Papers visualization (2009). http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/visualizations/john-tagliabue-papers-edmund-s-mus.

Archivists’ Toolkit screenshots (2009). https://staff.lib.ncsu.edu/confluence/display/MNC/Archivists%27+Toolkit

Sources (in order of appearance)

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ArchivesSpace screenshots:Millman, David, Mark Matienzo and Katherine Kott (2012). Sustaining

ArchivesSpace. Presentation at DLF Forum, November 4, 2012. http://www.archivesspace.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DLF-Forum_11042012_final.pdf.

Photographs of Dalhousie University Archives and the Killam Library were taken by Dalhousie Libraries staff